The Open School of Ethnography & Anthropology(OSEA) and
Community Institute of Transcultural Exchange (CITE)
Our Mission
To provide training to individuals and communities in the ethnography of the future; and
To promote the innovative development and application of this ethnography
as a means for the improvement of individual and collective life-worlds.
Our Goals
To bring anthropology, as well as related fields of cultural studies,
into the hands of those that have been considered the primary subjects
to be studied so that these persons and groups may master, control,
and use these tools, methods, and knowledge in the pursuit of their
own agendas;
To foment reciprocal educational processes and mutually productive
interaction between the diverse communities of researchers, students,
social groups, and cultures that meet in transcultural encounters;
To prepare students in degree programs in cultural anthropology
and related human science fields, as well as professionals, community
groups, and other interested individuals, with hands-on, on-site,
intensive training in ethnographic research that further professional
advancement, personal growth, and collective goals; and
To increase the prosperity, well-being, achievement, tranquility,
self-determination, and positive valorization of sociocultural communities
that are located in or that have been forced into the political,
economic, and sociocultural margins of today’s globally interactive
humanity.
